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Today's commentary comes from author and apologist, Abdu Murray.

The August 27, 2025 mass shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School is revolting for many reasons.

The victims were largely children in the midst of praying.

The shooter had written

a hate-filled manifesto, and, chillingly, scrawled his hatred directly onto his weapons.

He wanted everyone to know not only what he had done, but why.

While mental illness played a role, political and social agendas were the fuel, making

this atrocity the latest expression of what some are now calling

assassination culture, a disturbing level up of cancel culture.

Where cancel culture sought to erase voices and reputations through social pressure in the

digital arena, assassination culture seeks to eradicate adversaries through violence in the

physical world.

We've already seen this trend take root.

Consider Luigi Mangione, who murdered Brian Thompson, the CEO of a major health care insurance

company. Instead of universal condemnation, Mangione achieved macabre celebrity status. Why? Because he

murdered the right kind of person, the head of a health care insurance company. When Thompson's

family needed sympathy for their husband and father's death, the public valorized the killer.

When I first heard the story, my thoughts went immediately to Thompson's wife and children. A year ago,

my father was ripped from our lives by two murderers. It is unimaginably painful. I can't imagine

mourning his loss while others celebrated. Thankfully,

I've received the love I've needed. I wish I could say the same for Thompson's family.

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